In case you hadn’t heard, Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife, Carla Bruni was due to make a cameo appearance in Woody Allen’s upcoming film “Midnight in Paris” starring Owen Wilson. Her role was to walk out of a bakery with a baguette. It sounds so simple, but it seems that acting requires skills that singers and supermodels [...]
Everyone’s favourite mad-cap Mayor (of the people who read this blog) Christian Estrosi has made a final coup against freedom and democracy: he has banned the recording of council meetings, after censoring street performers it was the next logical step to censor his councillors. The Mayor of Nice decided without warning that the recordings would [...]
It’s finally here and took me literally all afternoon to make. It’s my Party Election Broadcast for the Labour Party, as part of the House of Twits PEB competition, where I could stand to win an amazing £20.10, more than twice the cost it took to make! As you can see, I went with the [...]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4/10 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of the Oscar Grandees this year, and makes a lot of promises on which it does not deliver. Derived from a short story by F Scott Fitzgerald, Fincher has stretched three hours out of twenty minites of content. Benjamin Button [...]
“Not bad, expected better.” As part of the Bath Film Festival, I attended an advance screening of Oliver Stone’s satirical biopic of US President George W. Bush; a quick-stop tour of his presidency, punctuated by flashbacks of his younger days. W. (pronounced “Dub-ya” and not the British “Double-you” is, surely, a passable piece of entertainment, [...]
Bath filmmakers are being challenged to produce 60 second films to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Bath Music Festival.Suited and Booted Studios, Bath Film Festival and Media Art Bath have joined forces to issues the challenge to filmmakers of all ages. All film entries will be compiled into a feature length DVD, to be [...]
It looked good in the trailers, but unfortunately, the audience of Jumper is unable to hop from one clip to the next. The premise seemed quirky and creative too; David Rice (Hayden Christensen) is a young man who suddenly discovers that he can teleport anywhere in the world at will. The film appears very promising [...]
Being an extra is a very peculiar experience. In fact, I can say with primary evidence that the whole business of “being an extra” is not wholly dissimilar to what you might see on the Ricky Gervais series. (That is, the first series, before his character became famous and stopped being an extra.) Essentially, the [...]
There have been few examples of a successful video game to film adaptation, and Hitman is generally no exception to this rule. Through masquerading as an intricate tale of political espionage, the film is actually a series of ridiculous and pointless fights punctuated by awkward dialogue. Hitman is essentially the story of Timothy Olyphant (last [...]
